New Guinea's Uncharted
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Coast
Mission Cruise Abandoned
EVERY now and again some incident serves to direct attention to the fact that the coasts of New Guinea and the adjacent islands have never been completely charted, and that ship-owners send their valuable vessels into these wafers at some risk.
The Australian Board of Missions re cently proposed to charter a liner and organise a special party to visit the north west coast of Papua, on the occasion of the opening of the new cathedral at Dogura; but it announced in April that it had been compelled to abandon the proposal because of the dangers of navi gation. Three steamers were bespoken, but because the waters of the north-eastern coast of Papua never have been properly charted, the naval authorities advised that the cruise should not be proceeded with.